Chords In Open D Tuning 

Open G is almost identical to open D. Same chord shapes just moved one string closer to your nose X00000 G root X21222 Am X55555 C 4th X77777 D 5th XX2000 Bm Open D tuning same shapes 000000 root 0200020 Bm 555555 777777 Open D minor Dsus is DADGAD is fun too. Riddle: DGDGCD what "religous" about that chord?....

Also try DADF#AC or DADF#AB TOTAL gamechangers but easy to learn once you know open tunings. D7 tuning and D6 tuning.

Yeah - same kind of experience to me. I can do Son House-type stuff in open G, but I really need to work on D.

Open D and open G have different intervals, so, going between the two requires some learning. However, open D and open E have the same intervals and are interchangeable (put the capo on the second fret in open D for open E). Likewise, open G and open A are interchangeable (capo on the second fret of open G for open A).

To my way of thinking, what I'm playing here is still blues, even if it's a relatively bright kind of blues. So blues licks are still fair game, including that b3 in the bass (which I'm theoretically goosing towards the major 3rd with a bit of a bend, though not actually reaching it). If you think about it, we all play minor pentatonic over dominant-chord blues forms all the time and never think twice about it - all while doing that same sort of b3/3 move, or hammering on from b3 to 3, or doing all of that and including the major 6 from time to time. It's the major/minor contrast that makes it sound good, whether you're brightening up a minor blues with the major 6th (see: Charlie Christian) or darkening a more major-sounding progression with b3rds and b7ths.

Thanks man, greatly appreciated!​@@FretboardConfidential

Fair point. I almost always *do* call out the details like that, but every now and then, I think "Come on, Hamburger, get to the point; can't you say this in under ten minutes?" And then, inevitably, I manage to leave out something useful like exactly where I've got my fingers. Thanks for taking the time to post your feedback. For what it's worth: for the G/D chord (the IV chord), I've got my middle finger on the second fret of the 5th string and my index finger on the first fret of the 3rd string, with an option to put down ring finger on the second fret of the 2nd string. And for the A7 chord (the V chord) I've got my middle finger on the second fret of the 4th string and index on the first fret of the 3rd string, with an option to put the ring finger on the second fret of the 1st string.

@@FretboardConfidentialThat's great, thank you for your reply and explanation. I've been playing for some time in open G, and I'm starting out with open D, so this is very helpful. (Don't play standard tuning very much, I find it confusing).

I am also relatively new to Open D. And have almost no experience with guitars in standard tuning, but did play a baritone ukulele for awhile. I was wondering if you have tablature of a piece I’d pay for as I figure it would be fair that earn a living. In this lesson I figured our the chord shapes no problem, but was lost when you stated adding melody notes, bass runs, fills etc as this is, as yet, beyond my level. So a tab of a tune or improve I IV V with maybe a couple of verses with a variation or two would be a great help (assuming it would not be too expensive). Cheers from Ottawa, Canada. Mike F.